<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Middlebury, Williams=need blind for intls and they give lotsss of aids but hard to get in (at least for me)
Grinnell, Macalester, Amherst, Carleton, U penn, Dartmouth, Oberlin, Lafayette give some aids and sometimes lots of aids.
FYI. Lafayette rejected me and said that it's because they don't have money. My friend said that it's about which country they want to recruit this year. I forgot to tell you that I got really low SAT critical reading score about 540. Anyway, I got into Grinnell w/ $24000, Macalester w/ $30000, and got waitlisted everywhere; I don't know why they didn't just reject me. So if you have low SAT verbal scores(hope you don't), try Grinnell and Mac.</p>
<p>Hmm if SAT scores are the weakest link in your otherwise strong application, try Bates or Connecticut College. Both make SAT I optional. I had rather modest SAT I scores (as compared to my grades and SAT IIs at least), and it so happened that I was only accepted at these two schools and waitlisted at all others (where SAT I is not optional). Coincidence? Maybe...</p>
<p>Applying ED will also help a LOT. I know for the fact that Kenyon awards close to full scholarships during ED rounds. But no longer for RD rounds because money is simply limited. Now that my family circumstances has changed, Kenyon can't even provide me with more grants. So I think I just has got to work a bit more during summer and school term. By the way, Kenyon provided me with USD 30000 worth of grants, USD 3000 worth of loans and USD 1000 worth of work-study.</p>
<p>i got $35,000 from Dickinson College including 3,000 for work and 3,000 loan</p>
<p>got $31,000 from Clark University all grants no work or loan</p>
<p>got $20,000 from Macalester (really wanted to go there but they didn't give enough aid)</p>
<p>Waitlisted to Franklin and Marshall, Washington Univeristy St.Louis, Trinity University, and flat out rejected from Tufts, JHU, and Northwestern. I believe this is mostly due to my financial situation because I had very good grades, ECs, decent SAT scores, just didnt' have the money to attend. </p>
<p>Attending Dickinson Colllege in Carlisle, PA. feel free to contact me if you have any other questions about the whole international student admissions and financial aid issue.</p>
<p>I know, this message is late... As for my aid: I got 30k from Wellesley and 28k from Smith, plus a free merit scholarship from Wesleyan College in Georgia.</p>
<p>-------------help please, thanks-----------------------------
hey, i'm an asian..
just finished my premed course (BS Public Health) and i'm currently looking for a GOOD med school that offers a scholarship/study grant/financial aid...
any idea? thanks a lot</p>
<p>40000 dollar at Colgate
39000 dollar at Midd</p>
<p>to acceptance:</p>
<p>Can you tell your SAT scores, grades and EC's?</p>
<p>SAT 2050 SAT II all three above 700.</p>
<p>Very strong high school grades.. </p>
<p>But I think my leadership activities and Sports EC's got me in</p>
<p>Keep in mind.. stats alone dont get you in anywhere (esspecially LAC's)
Write strong essays and keep hammering on your good points.</p>
<p>Well, I actually got rejected from Colgate and it came as a big schock to me, as I was pretty sure that I'd get in.
My stats: 2020 SAT (600 CR, 630 W, 780 M), SAT II Physics 800, Maths 2C 800, Chemistry 750; good grades (my highschool average is about 9.4 out of 10); EC's: programming a few websites; developing a web content management system, revision comitee member of Young European Federalists, attending a school for young physicsts in local university (that's how I managed 800 from physics SAT2).</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot to say that for the last 12 years I have not participated in any sports, so that's perhaps what disadvantaged me...</p>
<p>I am from an underrepresented nation... probably that had played some role</p>
<p>Btw I dropped my place at Colgate.. and decided to be a middlebury panther!!!</p>
<p>If you don't mind, what is that underrepresented nation? I am from Lithuania.</p>
<p>Hmm never mind... I think lithuania is even more underrepresented</p>
<p>maybe your essays pulled your somewhat back and caused your rejection</p>
<p>Could anyone tell me their experiences applying to the following schools w/aid</p>
<p>1.) Notre Dame
2.) Brown
3.) Vanderbilt (I know its been horrible this year, but are they always like this?)
4.) Lehigh</p>
<p>Mayumi, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news (but I will). From what I hear, it is extremely difficult for an intel who does not have dual U.S. citizenship or permanent residency to get admitted into med school in the U.S. In fact most schools will not even consider you if you are an intel. For the few that do, you should be able to show proof that you will be able to cover the cost of your expenses in med school. However, there is hope! Some of the top med schools (like Harvard) do have funds to sponsor a FEW international students. But to get this kind of aid, you must have excellent grades, intimidating MCAT scores, and a strong application in general. If you think that you are up for it, a good place to start is by searching for schools that admit intels in the first place.</p>
<p>Bonne chance!</p>
<p>another thing is: by the time you've graduated from college, you might have completely changed your mind about med school!! going to college will bring you many surprises as you inch closer to discovering more of your personality and intellectual interests.</p>
<p>UK or Singapore are better options for intels considering medicine.. dont u think?</p>
<p>does anyone have any experience with notre dame in terms of admissions + aid.. . it seems like some universities (like bucknell) offer no aid to intels although they say they do! (a person got flat out rejected from bucknell and got into harvard and stanford!)....</p>
<p>I never had the impression that Notre Dame offers aid to internationals, and even if it does I doubt it's very generous. Nevertheless it's very easy to get into for internationals if you don't need aid. I have a friend who got in with O'levels (and he's not a very good student either, just rich).</p>
<p>Brown... I don't know if you remember my experience with Brown, but I think I've lamented on it umpteen times on CC haha. I applied 2 years ago without financial aid and got in. But when I reapplied again last year with financial aid, I got rejected outright. But I know there are two Singaporean girls who got there on financial aid, so it's not impossible - just that I am not good enough. :( Anyway, it would certainly help if the majority of your applicants applying to these countries are requesting for financial aid, in which case you will be on even footing with most of applicants. Otherwise, competiting with applicants not requiring aid to schools like Brown, which are hard to get into in the first place, is really an uphill task. </p>
<p>I actually think Bucknell does offer financial aid to internationals... albeit not very generously.</p>
<p>woebegone,</p>
<p>Check it out: <a href="http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3409&profileId=9%5B/url%5D">http://apps.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3409&profileId=9</a> In fact, yes, Bucknell offers for 14/4=3 int'l freshman each year some kind of finaid. But as you can see it is virtually impossible to get it.</p>